Dawn
Here is a video of 5 Month old growling. My teen son approached him before it started. After I stopped recording, the dog barked at my son, what I think was aggressively. I sent him to crate for a few mins.
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After I submitted the video to you and let dog out of crate, he was sitting with me ( he’s usually with me) and started grumbling. It seemed innocent, like maybe he was not comfortable, he wasn’t tense, rolled in his back . I watched closely and stopped petting & spoke to him normally. He relaxed, rolled on his back. Thought it was good. Then he rolled back upright, started growling- not sure if it was aggressive or “talking”, then he started snarling and raising lip while looking at me from the side
James
3 yo Mal with CD, working on CDX. She’s a dream, low drive and smart until we go to my barn. Behavior is neurotic, barely listens to call backs. Last week she bit a horse on the nose. Think 1200 pound vacuum.
Considering e collar but not convinced it’ll help. I’d love for her to continuing being part of barn life, but she’s getting worse now that we’ve begun under saddle training. Any tips, or does she need to stay home? I can’t trust her around other people’s horses.
Jen
Hi there!
I have always used *yes* as my marker for what I’m asking and reward with it, toy/treats. I will at times say, good as my bridge word. Anyway, I also have a release word (OK) which I don’t reward for & then at times mark with a *yes* once released, so, I say, OK & yes. I’m not releasing with *yes* if that makes sense? Do you have a release word? What is it & how do you use it?
Example, A stopped contact in agility. Or a down, sit, place, etc?
Michelle
My 6 1/2 month old Malinois barks at any little noise when resting in the house. The noise, no matter how faint or loud, seems to induce fear in him. This has been going on since we adopted him at four months. I go to him and try to reassure him with “it’s OK“. That does not seem to be helping. I would love to have some suggestions as I do not want him afraid nor do I want him to be barking.
Dan
Reply to last week with the resource guarding. My 25 year old sister lives with us and he got a Christmas ornament when we were not home and she went to pet him and he turned around and bit her. Didn’t break skin but it’s still a bit and she didn’t even know he had it, this is the one and only time he’s really shown aggression. He is crate trained but she likes to take him out when me and my wife are at work. We also want kids one day so we want to make sure this doesn’t happen again but not sure what to do as he doesn’t do it to us.
Tommy A
hope all is good with you and yours. As you know I have been a dog musher for a few years. When I have encountered off Leach dogs or other animals I have always tried to keep my dogs running and not stopping.
Running are working and working means order. Stopping means frustration and disorder. This is the way I have been training my malinois also. I would rather have them run straight through the other dogs than stop and maybe have a fight.
Am I too brutal? I actually don’t think so.
How would you approach the problem? Stoping and turning around is often not possible. I have posted a video.
Sean
How important is it to keep a dog under threshold when working on reactivity. My dog has been reactive to motorcycles, dogs, and sometimes people. As a result, I have scaled back our walks to very early hours of the morning. My goal has been to keep her under threshold while building leash skills, engagement, and obedience. I’ve had her for 3 months and this has been my focus over the last two months or so. I’m at a point where the early morning walks where I’m avoiding most triggers or fairly easy. I want to try to make progress by getting her around triggers, while not pushing her overboard.
